Voyage dans la Grece, 5 volumes, 1st edition, Paris, 1820-21, half titles, frontispiece to each (volume 3 frontispiece detaching) five engraved maps and plans (four folding), facsimile plate, one or two minor spots and stains, contemporary half calf over original boards, a little rubbed and stained, some worming, mainly to volume I lower cover, 8vo Blackmer 1346 (second edition). "This is Poqueville's second work on Greece and contains an account of his real experiences of Greek life. In 1805 he was appointed consul at Ioannina where he spent ten years, mostly at loggerheads with Ali Pasha." (Blackmer). (5)
Voyage dans la Grece, 5 volumes, 1st edition, Paris, 1820-21, half titles, frontispiece to each (volume 3 frontispiece detaching) five engraved maps and plans (four folding), facsimile plate, one or two minor spots and stains, contemporary half calf over original boards, a little rubbed and stained, some worming, mainly to volume I lower cover, 8vo Blackmer 1346 (second edition). "This is Poqueville's second work on Greece and contains an account of his real experiences of Greek life. In 1805 he was appointed consul at Ioannina where he spent ten years, mostly at loggerheads with Ali Pasha." (Blackmer). (5)
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